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GB News has been accused of downplaying or avoiding analysing the hundreds of mentions of President Donald in the Jeffrey Epstein files.
Media reform campaigners’ analysis of the right-wing channel’s output suggests its pundits and presenters have generally presented the Epstein allegations as a distraction, or a non-issue for the US President over recent days.
In recent days commentary on the channel about the story has ranged from “completely dismissing it to outright ignoring it,” campaign group Stop Funding Hate has claimed.
That includes not mentioning the story on the day of the release in peak viewing hours (between 6:30am and 10pm), and the same the day after – when it was receiving blanket coverage from other broadcasters.
Of the 1,500 mentions of Donald Trump in the latest cache of Epstein documents released by Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, several have raised questions about how much the President knew of his late friend’s sexual crimes. The President has denied all wrongdoing and said he cut off his relationship with Epstein long before becoming aware of any crimes.
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But in an email from Epstein in 2011, the deceased paedophile describes the US President as the “dog that hasn’t barked” and claims Trump had “spent hours” at his home with one of Epstein’s victims.
In another, Epstein said “of course” Trump “knew about the girls as he had asked Ghislaine to stop”, referring to Epstein’s long-time associate and girlfriend Ghislaine Maxwell, as the Guardian reported. The White House has insisted Trump was “not involved in any wrongdoing whatsoever” and branded any supposed attempts to link Trump and Epstein as a “hoax” by the “liberal media.”
GB News has strongly echoed these narratives over the past week. In the days that followed the release, the channel’s commentators insisted there’s “no evidence” linking Donald Trump to the supposed “Epstein nonsense.”
We look through a sample of these broadcasts below.
Evening of Epstein-Trump revelations – 12th November US time
Late Show Live: Broadcast in the UK early AM on the 13th November.
GB News host Bev Turner asks: “What do you think ‘the dog that doesn’t bark’ means?”
Greg Swenson (Chairman of Republicans Overseas UK) replies: “Nothing to it….If there was anything in the Epstein files, they would have come out in October 2024. You know, as you said, that they tried everything else. They, you know, fabricated a lot of lawfare against the President.”
Turner hits out at The Guardian’s reporting: “The Guardian [reports] ‘He knew all about the girls. Epstein messages pile pressure on Trump’. That is The Guardian’s interpretation. Probably not a coincidence that they’re running this on the week that the BBC is at war with Donald Trump.”
The BBC’s supposed ‘war with Donald Trump’ was in fact two of the most senior BBC figures resigning and the corporation apologising for a clumsy edit of a Donald Trump speech, broadcast over a year ago – followed by belated threats by the President to sue the BBC for between $1bn and $5bn dollars.
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